You have to click the taking care of authors blue link thing to see the submission part. But I am beyond excited! Even though they are in the UK, I'm sending them a query! This is amazing new to me (I'm a HUGGEE JK Rowling fan! ). I know I'm going to get rejected, but I don't care: simply sending them a query and getting a rejection is beyond exciting for me, and a HUGGEE honor!!

3-4 weeks is their standard response time! Is anyone else as excited as I am?! AHH!!! (I need more smileys to show my excitement)

Publishing Experience:My first YA novel will be published by Month 9 Books in December 2013.

Posted 27 February 2012 - 07:41 PM

Not to be Debbie Downer (because it *would* be quite fun to query her agent ), but as a first time author, do you really want JK Rowling's agent? How much of a priority will you be, and how much time/devotion are they going to put forth on a new writer when they have Ms. Rowling and her empire to tend?

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:06 AM

I totally get the excitement of querying the agent of an author that you totally love. I remember when I queried the agents of some of my most beloved authors. The feeling of rubbing elbows with the people who are connected to my heroes. To think that they had read something of mine (even if just a query). It was awesome. It makes you feel like a real author. And the potential. Ahhh. Dreaming of the potential can keep you on a high for days. Sometimes we need that feeling. That excitement. And yeah, our chances are low, and the agent might not have a lot of time for a newbie. But then again--they might. They might have the seeds we need to make us better than we could ever dream.

So go for it guys! Follow your dreams and be excited! Let that enthusiasm roll over you and make you giddy. (And snub your nose at reality when you need to. We get enough of that every day.)

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Publishing Experience:HOUSE OF THISTLES published November 2013. WITHOUT BORDERS to be published in serialization in the fall of 2015 by Cliffhanger Press. CASSIA, a literary novel set in an arts district, will be published by Evolved Publishing in March 2016.

Publishing Experience:HOUSE OF THISTLES published November 2013. WITHOUT BORDERS to be published in serialization in the fall of 2015 by Cliffhanger Press. CASSIA, a literary novel set in an arts district, will be published by Evolved Publishing in March 2016.

Posted 29 February 2012 - 08:38 AM

@Lanette -- OH, I HOPE SHE RESPONDS SOOON! She seems so wonderful and amazing! It was a huge risk to query her, even a little request would make me happy!

I hope you get that request from her. I haven't sent off my query, yet. I'm still polishing, but I researched and made a list of 75 agents.

I totally get the excitement of querying the agent of an author that you totally love. I remember when I queried the agents of some of my most beloved authors. The feeling of rubbing elbows with the people who are connected to my heroes. To think that they had read something of mine (even if just a query). It was awesome. It makes you feel like a real author. And the potential. Ahhh. Dreaming of the potential can keep you on a high for days. Sometimes we need that feeling. That excitement. And yeah, our chances are low, and the agent might not have a lot of time for a newbie. But then again--they might. They might have the seeds we need to make us better than we could ever dream.

So go for it guys! Follow your dreams and be excited! Let that enthusiasm roll over you and make you giddy. (And snub your nose at reality when you need to. We get enough of that every day.)